Download or read book Freedom! the Untold Story of Benkos Bioho and the World’s First Maroons written by Kofi LeNiles and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benkos Bioho was a real person who lived during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was born into a royal family. He was captured by slave traders and sold into slavery. He managed to escape along with other slaves and soon created the land Palenque in 1603.